Abstract
We have sought to employ the resistance acquired by or embodied in the serum of the healthy animal in its life struggle against a deadly infection with tuberculosis.
The depression reaction produced by injections of tuberculous serum into animals sensitised with tuberculin, a description of which we have already published has led us to this investigation.
After employing a number of methods for utilizing the serum of healthy animals which had been infected with tuberculosis, we are duplicating one which seems to have given promising results.
Method I—Begun December 2, 1909. The result of this experiment was reported at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 27, 1909.
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